Synopsis The Last Note of Warning is the third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York. Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some small measure of both stability and freedom. […]
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Kill or Bee Killed (A Bee Keeping Mystery) Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Colorado Publisher : Crooked Lane Books (June 4, 2024) Hardcover : 336 pages Synopsis Perfect for fans of Laura Childs and Amanda Flower, this second Bee Keeping mystery takes Bailey Briggs to the brink […]
Review – Match Me If You Can by Swati Hegde
Synopsis A young magazine writer in Mumbai must prove her matchmaking skills—and contend with growing feelings for her close family friend—in this debut desi romance. Confident fashionista Jia Deshpande spends her days writing cliché-ridden listicles for Mimosa, Mumbai’s top women’s magazine. When she can, Jia dishes about the messy truth of real love on […]
Ghost Cat at the Mystery Hotel (A Tenth Life Cozy Mystery) Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Setting – Oregon Coast Independently Published (May 30, 2024) Number of Pages: 246 Synopsis The game is murder at the Mystery Beach Hotel. When Camelia Collins meets her old college friend Anne Pine for a murder mystery […]
BOUND IN SILENCE: by Christena Stephens True Crime / Texas History / Nonfiction Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Page Count: 286 pages Publication Date: February 26, 2024 Scroll down for a giveaway! Synopsis On a nearly moonless night in October 1943, a single gunshot rang out in Littlefield, Texas. A prominent […]
Review – If Something Happens To Me by Alex Finlay
Synopsis For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali’s piercing scream as she is taken. With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over […]
Excerpt – Holliday by Matthew Di Paoli
Synopsis Holliday follows the infamous 1880s gambler, dentist, and gunslinger, Doc Holliday. From the outset, Doc has been diagnosed with tuberculosis and is told to head to drier climates and imbibe to prolong his life. He has also heard of a spring located somewhere along the frontier that could cure him—what he believes to […]
Synopsis When we last left Murphy Murphy, the Department of Redundancy Department detective had just solved a mystery that revolved around the popular rock band, Serious Crisis. That success made headlines and sent Murphy’s world spinning. Acclaim followed in the form of TV network interviews, a book deal, and ultimately a call from […]
Review – Goyhood by Reuven Fenton
Synopsis Thirty years after leaving Georgia, Mayer Belkin, a Talmud scholar married into a prestigious Brooklyn rabbinical family, faces a shocking revelation after his mother’s death: he and his twin brother aren’t actually Jewish. Traumatized, Mayer decides to convert, facing a week-long wait for the earliest appointment. In the interim, the twins embark on […]
Review – Eye of the Beholder by Jim Bates
Synopsis When Jena’s new boyfriend Herm announces that he is traveling the Northshore of Lake Superior to meet Commander Donner, she is skeptical. After all, Herm is convinced that he is an alien from the planet Xylan who has been sent to Earth to search for rare minerals. As far as Jena is concerned, […]